Tao Te Ching
Kumbharipa ཀུམྦྷ་རི་པ།
(“The Eternal Potter”)
10th century CE
Mahasiddha #63
Kumbharipa was a potter bored into despair by the repetition and meaningless tedium of his profession of making pottery. Deeply depressed and on the verge of suicide, he met a teacher who pointed out the universal nature of his unhappiness and suffering. Pointing out the symbolic understanding of the pottery wheel being like the wheel of life, our passions and thoughts being like the clay, and 6 pots being like the 6 realms; Kumbharipa practiced this insight and became enlightened entering a Lao Tzu type wu wei state with the “potter’s wheel spinning by itself and pots spring from is a joy sprang from this potter’s heart.” Mahasiddha #63
Lineages
Artists Mahasiddha
Eras
Chinese
5 Dynasties 10 Kingdoms (907 – 960 CE)5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)
Northern Song (960 – 1127 CE)
Liao dynasty (907 – 1125 CE)
Quotes by Kumbharipa (3 quotes)
“From the soil of unknowing and ignorance comes the clay of passion and thought.”
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“The flame of pure awareness burns away all delusion.”
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“On the whirling wheel of habitual actions, the music and dance of existence takes form.”
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